Re: The future of computing (is Forth left behind?)

On Mar 25, 11:43 am, an...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Anton Ertl)
wrote:
> Grid computing is something very different from what you seem to
> imagine.  It has nothing to do with laying out processing elements in
> a grid on a CPU chip; instead, it's a new marketing name for
> supercomputer centers (there are also some new ideas).

The argument is that getting a distributed processing paradigm to
scale up to more capable processing elements is something that is
likely to face fewer binding constraints than either getting a
distributed processing paradigm to scale down or getting a programming
model for a few processors to scale up.

If you had a 5x8 grid of Seaforth chips and were successfully
programming for 1,000 distinct processing elements as limited in
capability as the Seaforth elements, there is every reason to believe
that the programming model would scale up to massively superparallel
with fewer hick-ups than a programming model developed for one through
four processing elements.